Wrestling Wrap Up: Arrow's Stephen Amell to Feud with Stardust?

There's a Fury Road War Party's worth of news and rumors to sift through this week so spray chrome paint in your mouth and let's ride to Valhalla!

First off, before I even get into the power and the glory that was last week's NXT: TakeOver event, I wanna talk about the big celebrity cameo on RAW last night. No, not the Entourage guys. Not THE BOYZ! Not Team Tourage. Not 47 Bronin. Not Douche Parade 9000. Let's talk Arrow. Could we be getting Arrow vs. Stardust? I'm not sure what the long term plans are, but it sure seems like something is in the works and that last night's confrontation between actor Stephen Amell and Stardust wasn't just a one-off.

It's not widely known, but Amell is a big wrestling fan. I found out a few years back when I visited the set of Arrow, before the show's premiere, and he mentioned his fandom and said his favorite wrestler of all time was Randy Savage. Since then there have been murmurs here and there of him hosting RAW. Sometimes from him just sending the idea out into the Twitter-verse, sometimes from fans clamoring for him to show up. But lo and behold, the exalted Al Sah-him was actually there last night. On hiatus from the show, ready to soak in four hours of bloated RAWness.

He wasn't the featured celeb though. No, that went to the Entourage gherkins. They were there to promote their big-screen STD and to do a few backstage skits and whatnot. Amell was just in the crowd. But that didn't mean he wasn't up for some shenanigans.

So Stardust, on his way out to battle Neville, screamed right in Oliver Queen's face. And homestyle buffet, with his permanently Rock-arched eyebrow, was all like "WTF you say?"

Stardust then lost his match, but it wasn't due to any Amell interference. So there was still a lingering issue. That one moment couldn't have been it, right? JBL even screamed "Stardust, you have failed this city!" The Arrow references were still front and center, like Thea's Season 2 midriff. So will this become another John Stewart scenario? A celeb saying "Eff it," running with their deep wrasslin' fandom, and getting into fun mini-feud with a "heel who ain't doing anything right now?" Let's hope so. Stardust has already unleashed a backstage tongue-lashing, calling out Amell - who he believes is really Green Arrow!

So what next? Salmon Ladder Match? Starling City Street Fight? Felicity Four Wa...nevermind.

Look, we know enough not to expect an actual match, but let's vote on what we think Amell will do to Stardust? There's gotta be one move he pulls off. Like Stewart knocking Rollins in the nards. Nothing fancy. Nothing complicated. So I vote for the Canadian Destroyer. Obvi.

NOW, we can talk dem Tourage boyz. No, I didn't expect the cast from Entourage to get booed on RAW. There's a rather refined, focused backlash against that movie, and retroactively against that show, on the web. But that's not something that would permeate into a Long Island wrestling crowd. If anything, the crowd was going to be indifferent. As most wrestling crowds are with any actor who isn't Hugh Jackman coming out to promote a movie. But they wisely paired the guys up with Zack Ryder and then pitted them all AGAINST CENA. And I don't care if you're famous or a farmer, if you're opposing Cena, you're going to deflect a lot of disgust. And so they actually got to be in a fun match segment featuring Ryder - getting what I can only assume to be his last RAW match ever forever.

Kudos to the WWE for finally bringing Ryder out to do something meaningful in front of his home crowd. I will miss him now as his pixels slowly separate and he screams, dissolving into the cruel tapestry of the cosmos.

RAW had some good parts, but overall I don't know what they're doing storywise. Let's put it this way. If I can essentially write the same headline two weeks in a row, something's off. Last week, I could've written "Ambrose Gets Title Match Against Rollins." I could have put down the same exact thing this week! So what does that mean? It means last week's RAW counted for s***. It meant the entire final segment was meaningless. Ambrose didn't get a title shot. He had to win it all over again. You'd think that with only two weeks to hype Elimination Chamber, they wouldn't have to repeat anything. And they wouldn't have to resort to rehashing old Ambrose bits from his feud with Rollins last fall.

And, and this is just an in-story pet-peeve, the idea that the top in-charge heels would be fine with there being no title match at a major PPV is absolutely absurd. And that they'd also be fine with no proper end to the show. As in, if Ambrose hadn't shown up, the characters of Hunter and Steph would be okay sending everyone home with no final segment. We can do better than this in 2015.

Oh, and who uploaded that backstage video of Rollins pushing the camera guy into Ambrose onto YouTube? GTV? Looks like Hunter's Human Centipede has a faulty fixture.

Anyhow, Ambrose showed up at the end. Either because he escaped or he was released (it looks like he'd stolen some s*** either way). Not with a hot dog cart this time, just a paddy wagon and a nightstick. Now, I was half-expecting Reigns, who's been relegated to back-up bozo in this feud, to ALSO sign the match contract. It was left in the ring with him and Ambrose. Ambrose could have handed it over to Reigns too, for a big pop. I know, I know. A three-way Shield match deserves a bigger platform and a more hype than this. I'm with you. Or at least I was mostly with you until they ran an all-Shield match at Payback and pretty much killed the preciousness of it all. Orton was there, sure, but it WAS an all-Shield match. So what we all crave now is just that Payback main event...minus one person. That's weird. The specialness sort of got wasted. So I figure they might as well just pull the trigger and give it to us now and get as many free May subscribers in for Elimination Chamber as they can.